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WolframAlphaSucks
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26 May 2009 - 19:38 - r1.2
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IanHolmes
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// Reposted from a Boing Boing comment on a Main.RudyRucker post: // Why do technology evangelizers give Wolfram Alpha a free pass? It is quite clearly orders of magnitude less useful than Google. I have not yet seen the problem it solves. Everyone I know personally who's used it says it sucks. For even the simple computations it boasts that it can do well, it sucks awfully because its knowledge model is just not up to the job, and never will be. (I typed "murders ...
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PrimordialSoup
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14 May 2009 - 17:21 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// More evidence supporting the RNA World hypothesis: // "Synthesis of activated pyrimidine ribonucleotides in prebiotically plausible conditions." Powner, Gerland Sutherland, Nature 2009 // http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v459/n7244/full/nature08013.html // http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14rna.html? r 1 em // Main.IanHolmes 15 May 2009 //
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NumbersStations
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14 May 2009 - 13:50 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// Wikipedia:Numbers stations robot voices reading cryptic numbers over shortwave radio may be good fodder for bioinformatics Teaching.CryptanalysisExercises. // The Atención station played a central role in the federal case against the Wikipedia:Wasp Network, aka the Wikipedia:Cuban Five. // "prioritize and continue to strengthen friendship with Joe and Dennis" 68 characters // "Under no circumstances should agents German nor Castor fly with BTTR or another ...
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WikipediaRNA
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01 May 2009 - 15:41 - NEW
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// Wikipedia and RFAM // The first Wikipedia paper in RNA Biology, from the Eddy lab's "secret agent man", Tom Jones. // // http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081216/full/news.2008.1312.html // http://selab.janelia.org/people/eddys/blog/?p 24 // Main.IanHolmes 01 May 2009 //
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MissionToEarthsCore
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16 Apr 2009 - 00:09 - r1.4
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// Stevenson, David J. Mission to Earth’s Core A Modest Proposal. Nature , 423 , 239-240, 2003. // ... // Earth’s interior is // opaque to electromagnetic signals with // periods less than the mission timescale, // and neutrinos are difficult to use, so // acoustic communication is best. // ... //
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EvolutionOfMalware
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31 Mar 2009 - 22:48 - r1.3
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// Evolution of viruses and worms // On the eve of Conficker's new payload activation period, I found this article from 2004, detailing four main "waves" in the evolution of viruses and worms: // http://vx.netlux.org/lib/atc01.html // From the book "Statistical Methods in Computer Security" // (ISBN:0824759397, Google search) // A bit out-of-date now, since it's pre-Storm and pre-Conficker, but interesting historically. // Here's a little sumpn-sumpn on Conficker ...
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AdaLovelaceDay
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23 Mar 2009 - 17:39 - r1.26
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// Ada Lovelace Day // March 24 2009 is Ada Lovelace Day, on which we recognize female role models in science and technology. // http://ada.pint.org.uk/list.php // http://twitter.com/findingada // Amongst the women whom I admire most in science engineering history are pioneers in // computer programming: Wikipedia:Ada Lovelace // electronic music: Wikipedia:Delia Derbyshire // structural biology: Wikipedia:Rosalind Franklin // genetics: Barbara McClintock (Wikipedia ...
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BodySwap
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03 Dec 2008 - 13:16 - r1.3
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// Body swap research shows that self is a trick of the mind // "If I Were You: Perceptual Illusion of Body Swapping" (PLoS ONE) // http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/03/experiment-provides.html // Brain scientists have succeeded in fooling people into thinking they are inside the body of another person or a plastic dummy. // The out-of-body experience which is surprisingly easy to induce will help researchers to understand how the human brain constructs a ...
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TonyBennsMagneticMap
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27 Nov 2008 - 08:47 - r1.5
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// Parking in his local area was so bad that Benn made this magnetic map so he and his wife, who died in 2000, could locate the their far-flung vehicles in the morning. // http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid 7550000/7550123.stm // http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/27/tony-benns-invention.html // Main.IanHolmes 27 Nov 2008 //
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BurgessTypeBiota
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22 Nov 2008 - 20:21 - r1.6
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// Wikipedia:Burgess shale type biota // Reconstructions of half-billion-year-old Cambrian animals from the Burgess Shale in Yoho National Park, BC (via Boing Boing) . // As Gould says: the Old Ones... // They vaguely remind me of Drawings of Balinese Sorcery. //
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FuturistCookbook
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21 Nov 2008 - 12:45 - r1.36
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// The Futurist Cookbook // “…and the diners were given materials of different textures such as velvet and sandpaper to stroke with their left hand. Sweet was combined with savoury to produce startling effects, and bitter and sour tastes were given their place: sardines with pineapple, mortadella with nougat, cooked salami with coffee and cologne. An aphrodisiac cocktail was devised, consisting of pineapple juice, eggs, cocoa, caviar, red peppers, nutmeg, and ...
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GeneImagery
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27 Nov 2008 - 08:49 - r1.5
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// Main.GeneMyers on imaging informatics. // http://www.bio-itworld.com/pb/2008/10/23/eugene-myers-imaging-informatics.html // Fun quotable statistic: mouse brain imaging will generate 4.2 trillion voxels/week // Main.IanHolmes 23 Oct 2008 //
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ExploringOrigins
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17 Oct 2008 - 11:01 - r1.2
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// Via Main.LarsBarquist: // 2008 NSF Science Engineering Visualization Winners: // http://www.nsf.gov/news/special reports/scivis/index.jsp?id win2008 // The honorable mention for interactive media is a site "Exploring Life's Origins" about the RNA World hypothesis, looks pretty neat. // http://www.exploringorigins.org/ // Main.IanHolmes 17 Oct 2008 //
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BiowikiPageRank
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27 Nov 2008 - 08:52 - r1.7
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// The Wikipedia:PageRank for http://biowiki.org/ is up a point, to 5/10 perhaps indicating a recovery from the spam attacks of yesteryear? // Or just that we're getting more links? // Not that I take this all that seriously we could do a lot of things to improve PageRank if we really cared, like minimizing the number of outgoing links per page (see especially the left bar) but it's nice to be nudging up in the Google rankings... // Now, if only the Dow Jones ...
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SingleSpeciesEcosystem
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10 Oct 2008 - 10:47 - r1.3
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// Metagenomics reveals anoxic, single-bacterium ecosystem in a gold mine: // http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2008/10/09/bold-traveler’s-journey-toward-the-center-of-the-earth/ // via http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in depth/7663927.stm // Can't find the Science paper yet but here is an anticipatory methods review article with Main.AdamArkin as co-author: // Main.IanHolmes 10 Oct 2008 //
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GuideToCloudComputing
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25 Sep 2008 - 15:31 - NEW
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IanHolmes
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// Information Week's Guide to Cloud Computing: // http://www.informationweek.com/news/services/hosted apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID 208700713 // From June 2008. // Main.IanHolmes 25 Sep 2008 //
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ProceduralRhetoric
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27 Nov 2008 - 08:51 - r1.4
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// Logic applied to automated game design // Described in this book: // http://www.bogost.com/books/persuasive games.shtml // Recommended by Main.MichaelMateas // Main.IanHolmes 03 Sep 2008 //
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JavascriptIPhone
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30 Aug 2008 - 02:21 - NEW
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// Writing Javascript for Safari on the iPhone: // http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/07/web-development-for-the-iphone/ // Nice code snippet for getting the viewport orientation 8-) // Main.IanHolmes 30 Aug 2008 //
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EvolutionAndMedicine
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30 Jul 2008 - 18:46 - r1.2
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// http://www.evolutionandmedicine.org/ "a resource for scientists and medical professionals working at the interface of evolutionary biology and medicine" // Includes the 2006 Science editorial Why Medicine Needs Evolution (PDF). // via this post on evolgen. // Main.IanHolmes 31 Jul 2008 //
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GeneDesignSoftware
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05 Nov 2009 - 16:34 - r1.3
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TWikiGuest
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// Clotho // http://2008.igem.org/Team:UC Berkeley Tools // APE: A Plasmid Editor. // http://www.biology.utah.edu/jorgensen/wayned/ape/ // Code Monkey video on the youtubes // Gene Designer. // // https: //www.dna20.com/tools/genedesigner.php // Main.IanHolmes 14 Mar 2008 //
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XMLandScheme
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28 Feb 2008 - 19:18 - r1.6
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// XML as a dialect of Scheme: // http://classes.eclab.byu.edu/330/wiki/index.cgi?XMLandScheme // http://okmij.org/ftp/Scheme/xml.html // Main.IanHolmes 29 Feb 2008 //
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Number of topics: 25
OK, I've stopped trying to bend the wiki into being a blog and am now using this subweb as, uh, a wiki for random one-off observations.
Images are often reposted at biowiki.org home.
Here are the 25 most recent new pages. -- IanHolmes - 04 Jun 2007
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